Container Management Cost-sharing Issues Related To The Discussion

In this dissertation, sticking to the principle of convenience, accuracy and rationality, the writer firstly analyses the differences between the container shipping and traditional ocean shipping, confirms the importance of the equipment managing cost in daily shipping operation and clarify its contribution to the voyage planning and operating analysis. According to the character of most container shipping lines, the dissertation discuss how to apportion the equipment managing cost among the voyages and vessels. As regard to the fact that in this field, a standard mode in the apportionment of the equipment managing cost, which can be accepted by most container shipping lines, has not been formed, currently we have to divide the equipment cost into two sorts ?regional cost and general cost firstly, then apportion the general cost among all the regions and vessels, finally apportion the regional cost among each exporting full unit, thus we can get the equipment managing cost per unit in a certain region, we call it regional equipment cost rate. According to the loading amounts on each vessel in a certain voyage and the equipment cost rate, we can calculate the equipment managing cost of the voyage. In order to get a more cost apportionment figure, and concerning the fact that the reefer exceeds other special units in shipping amounts and costs, we divide the special units into two types梤eefer and non-reefer (all the other special units). On the basic of the personal working experience, the writer take the operation status of COSCON in year 2000 as a case, analysing the data concerned and working out the equipment managing cost of each voyage to apply these figures to the prediction of the equipment managing cost for year 2001, then at the end of the year 2001, adjusting the equipment cost rate in line with the actual equipment managing cost amount to get a more accurate and reliable analysis result. Zhang Junming(MBA) Directed by Shao Ruiqing...